Real Ric doublenecks were bolt-on?
How you guys shatter illusions here.
Illusion, indeed. Actually, the double-neckers are "screwed and glued." But the 4080 is not the only Rick bass to have something other than a neck-through assembly. 4000 and 4001S basses from mid-1972 to the end of production in the early 1980s were set-neck construction. The hollow-body 4005 bass family also had set necks.
The lower-priced 3001 (and the short-scale 3000) were "bolt-on" necks (wood screws, actually), as were all the basses in the 2000 series: 2020, 2030, 2050, 2060, and 2030 Glenn Frey signature edition.
Neck-through Rick basses include early 4000 and 4001S, deluxe 4001, 4002, 4003, 4004, and 4008 and all their subvariants.